Web Search and Privacy
In the last blog post, I looked at how Google nudges user towards its location service through which it can collect non-anonymous location data. Even on devices which use Google location services, location data can only be collected when the Android Location Setting (ALS) is on. In this blog post, we discuss one instance on which Android is designed to force users to turn on ALS without any…
In August, documents from the Google vs Arizona case were published. Many sections of these documents have been redacted but some interesting emails went though. In one of these emails a Google Software Engineer is puzzled by the way Android keeps prompting users to enable Google Location Services (a.k.a Google Location Accuracy). In this post, I detail how Google nudges Android users toward its…
The Platform-To-Business regulation started to apply on July 12th. This regulation aims to shed more light on the relations between platforms and companies P2B. The regulation scope includes app stores. In this post I am interested in P2B's impact on Apple's app store and iOS APIs...
Last November I submitted a data access request to Google. One month later (which is the maximum delay to provide a first answer), Google informed me that my request would take some time to be processed. Two months later Google offered another answer … and told me that they won’t be able to respond to my request.
I’m not the only one who has been unpleasantly surprised by the way Chrome now handles logins on Google services (more on Techmeme). This new feature was unexpected, it was also not announced in Google post about the Chrome update, there is no simple opt-out, it makes the Chrome Privacy Policy outdated and it confusingly as creates different user experiences on Android and on desktop. Indeed, for…
On June 28, a decision of European Court of Human Rights reanimated the debate about the Right To Be Forgotten. The court rejected the request to delete some content on a website, considering that the right to access to information prevailed. The court made an interesting distinction with the Right To Be Forgotten applied to search engines. Search engines and publishers have different purpose so…
A couple of weeks ago, google started to stop redirected users from Google.com to localized versions of the search engine. This rather innocuous change is likely to have effect on the way safari anti tracking protection copes with Google cookies. Indeed, Safari now deletes cookies of sites you have not interacted with over the last 24 hours [1]. If you type Google.com and then are redirected to…
It looks like on Mobile the numbers IAB's reports are based on mostly reflect the dynamic of Google and Facebook advertising revenues, not those of average App developers...
In September Google announced “Customer Match”, a new tool for advertisers to target their existing customer using their email addresses. "Customer match" is almost like Facebook’s “Custom Audiences” but Google and Facebook seem engaged in “a privacy race to the bottom” and Google may have taken the lead...
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